“Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.” IfsNeedsGivingMomentsLastsFormCuttingGiving UpPhotographyPreciseRight TimeGreat Photography Author:Augusto De Luca
“I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.” WantHumansPoliticalLevelsCuttingPhotographyConnectionsAbstraction Author:James Nachtwey
“Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.” CuttingPhotographySeductiveShort Cuts Author:Paul Kane
“I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the photography or the cutting style, falls away because you are inside the movie.” FallCuttingStylePhotographyDelightedGood MovieArtificeMovie MakingReally Good Movie Author:Jay Cassidy
“While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless consideration during all moments previous to, or preparatory for, the pressing. It does not only operate in the blinding flash of a moment seized; it works all the time. The snatched picture merely cuts across the vein of observable incident or accident which is always beating, whether or not the fingers actually press.” DoeMomentsProcessCuttingPhotographyPressesFingersAccidentsConsiderationFlashVeinsIntuitiveIncidentsCartier Author:Lincoln Kirstein
“I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.” PeopleSelfSidesCuttingWalkingPhotographyPhotographCompositionPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:William Klein
“I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.” ResultsCuttingEffectsFiguresPhotographyClicksShuttersCutting OffCastration Author:Christian Metz
“I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form.” WayDifferentFormCreativityCuttingPaintingFindingsPhotographyExcitedVideoLayersNew WaysEditingImmediacyCollages Author:Mickalene Thomas
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” InspirationalNeedsLittlesPersonsCuttingPhotographyMadnessDareInsanityDaringRopeCreative PersonBrainstormingLateral Thinking Author:Nikos Kazantzakis
“A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.” PoliticalCultureLanguageCuttingPhotographyBoundariesLandscapeConstraints Author:Charlie Waite
“If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.” IfsGivingCuttingPhotographyMessagesPhotographerBeginnersPhotography By PhotographersShort Cuts Author:Edward Weston